Tuesday, January 05, 2016

5 Jan - The View

We would have said something, but we really wanted to sell this $15 billion pile of weapons.
Amid mounting human rights concerns, the Canadian government said this week it is moving forward with a controversial $15 billion weapons sale to the Gulf state.
commondreams.org
So can we stop fawning over Trudeau please? He's a neoliberal scumbucket with good PR. Hugs refugees, flogs guns to their attackers.
Government says it has no intention of cancelling contract for armoured vehicles even as it decries Saudi Arabia’s actions
theglobeandmail.com
The one candidate who is effectively rallying large numbers of voters to oppose the rise of corporate oligarchy – including in the media – has the plug pulled on him.
Let's go to the scoreboard to see who's winning the exciting game of "Presidential Election Media Coverage."
jimhightower.com
This time Ukranian officials decided to pay attention to the ‪#‎law‬ and there won't be US ‪#‎military‬ base established on ‪#‎Ukraine‬ soil.
In March 2015, Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow released a report – Blue Betrayal: The Harper government's assault on Canada's…
canadians.org



"The new collaborative study was conducted by scientists at esteemed institutions in both the U.S. and China and found that so-called "flow back" fracking wastewater induced malignant changes in human bronchial epithelial cells consistent with the cancerous phenotype."
The fracking industry likes to call its product "natural gas," but the natural consequence of its activity is the production of billions of gallons of…
greenmedinfo.com

Oklahoma's oil and gas commission ordered some injection well operators to reduce wastewater disposal after at least a dozen earthquakes hit an area north of Oklahoma City in less than a week.
"Ceasing activity or slowing it down would be a prudent measure." -- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) seismologist George Choy.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The state commission that regulates Oklahoma's oil and natural gas industry is ordering injection well operators to reduce…
bigstory.ap.org
Doctors: “Very unusual” infections being reported around massive gas blowout in LA… “If you’re able to leave do it now, I’m telling you it’s really critical” — Official: Toxic plume is spreading far away… it’s a national disaster — TV: “We’re a living science experiment” (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/doctors-very-unusual-infections-being-re…
CBS News, Jan 3, 2016: “I’ve been nauseous. I’ve felt lethargic,” said his mother Christine Soderlund. “My kids have had nosebleeds, they’ve had headaches.”… “It’s surreal,” said Christine Soderlund. “We are a living science experiment I believe.”
enenews.com

David Letterman in one of his last shows ripped into the fracking industry. Not just with one sentence, but with a long rant. You'll be both elated and depressed as he tells us the bitter truth.
‪#‎climatechange‬ ‪#‎FrackNO‬ ‪#‎Gasland‬ ‪#‎KeepItInTheGround‬ ‪#‎gofossilfree‬ ‪#‎LoveWaterNotOil‬ ‪#‎waterislife‬ ‪#‎ProtectTheSacred‬
‪#‎divestment‬ ‪#‎renewables‬
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Brandon Weber
Fracking is incredibly unpopular, even with Tory councils. So......
1) Slash local council money year after year
2) Push the councils to the point of bankruptsy
3) Say 'hey, theres millions to be made out of fracking'
And watch the self destructive scrabble for funds begin. Those who survive will be those who frack. Machiavelli would be proud

Millions of pounds in business rates will be handed to councils in England which give the green-light to shale gas developments.
gov.uk

TV: Unprecendented catastrophe underway near Los Angeles; Largest gas leak ever recorded — Report: “Thousands suffer nose bleeds and vomiting” — “Potentially devastating on a planetary scale” — Expert: “This is so far above and beyond what I’ve ever seen” (VIDEOS)
http://enenews.com/tv-unprecendented-catastrophe-underway-l…

CBC News, Dec 31, 2015 (emphasis added): Methane leak in California a ‘major catastrophe‘; Leak ‘largest ever recorded‘ could take 4 months to stop… “The amount of methane and natural gas that’s coming out of the Aliso Canyon Facility really is probably one of the largest volumes of gas ever recorde…
enenews.com
Jerry Avissato shared a link.
15 hrs


If oil workers have to test for drug and alcohol use due to risks in the workplace, so should police officers who carry deadly weapons and enforce laws.
change.or

Once the idea of controlling people for the "greater good" by restricting their access to government money is fully normalised (as it now is thanks to 'no jab no pay'), the sky is the limit on further measures such as this!
Welcome to the plantation!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/…/4d90cfd0e31b2b59c9ce8f1f2…
IF a person’s sole source of income is the taxpayer, the person, as a condition of benefit, must have contraception. No contraception, no benefit.
at.theaustralian.com.au
This is a beautiful demonstration of the way in which socialism and tyranny are intrinsically connected.
http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/a…/9070492/womens-welfare-proposal

Should unemployed women on welfare be forced to use contraception in return for Centrelink payments?
aca.ninemsn.com.au
So is this
Truth News Radio Australia shared a link.
13 hrs

ANTI-VAXXERS who attempt to flout state and federal immunisation laws have been warned they will be caught out.
couriermail.com.au

For all the reassurances we have that the practice is beneficial, when has it been proven in the field ? It came from regimens so risky shots had to be individually targeted as less of a problem than single adult exposure due to risk heightened by known proximity. ...translated to a universal program for infants !!!



The rare and incurable microcephaly condition, in which causes babies to be born with shrunken heads and small brains and skulls, has seen a surge in…
jewishbusinessnews.com
Rick Burgess
23 hrs
As anyone with a fleeting relationship with reality warned:

Academies are turning away children with special needs in order to “cherry-pick” pupils who are likely to get the best results, the head of a leading charity has…
independent.co.uk
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The Third Reich just moved to Amerika.

 Living Blue in a Red State's photo.
"To those on Wall Street who may be listening today, let me be very clear: Greed is not good. Wall Street and corporate greed is destroying the fabric of our nation. And, here is a New Year’s Resolution that we will keep: If you do not end your greed we will end it for you."
Watch LIVE at CommonDreams.org beginning at 2:00 PM EDT.

Speaking just blocks away from the belly of the beast, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Tuesday is expected give a major policy speech during which he…
commondreams.org

Brazil cancels $2 billion contract with Israeli security firm for 2016 Olympics

International Security and Defence Systems trained Central American death squads in the 1980s.
electronicintifada.net


"We can hate the Oregon gunmen’s worldview without wishing state violence on them."
Corvid writes: What we must not do is call for the police to move in with the tear gas and rubber bullets of Ferguson and Baltimore, or the live rounds of MOVE or Wounded Knee, because equal injustice is not justice done.
readersupportednews.org|By Margaret Corvid, Jacobin

Ranchers being arrested by CRIMINAL FEDS taking their lands & rights for valuable Minerals & Natural Gas for false reason of Conservation. First Rape of the Natives, Now Rape of U.S. Citizens by Corrupt Govt Tyranny.

The media are focused on the "Bundy Militia" angle to the standoff in Burns Oregon, where Aamon Bundy and brothers have taken over a Malheur Wildlife…
theconservativetreehouse.com



"It does us no good to ignore what is going on in this obscure little corner of the Pacific Northwest. It does us no good to refuse to hold to account the politics that led to this, and the politicians who sought to profit from it."


Vowing to resist the "tyranny" of the federal government and defend themselves against law enforcement, armed militants on Monday continued their occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon. As the group issued calls to ranchers and other supporters on social media for reinforcement, t…
commondreams.org


Homegrown extremists –> An odd story continues to unfold in Oregon: As many as 150 armed militiamen (though possibly far fewer) are in control of a building on a national wildlife refuge.
They demand that government-controlled land be handed over to ranchers and loggers because they claim the Constitution says it should be. But the anti-government and anti-Muslim activists involved in the takeover are not locals — “they are a small group of individuals who travel around the country attaching themselves to various local fights against the federal government, usually over land rights,” explains Jennifer Williams at Vox.

Good morning! Here’s your daily digest of money-and-politics news and the headlines of the day.
billmoyers.com


If you want understand why militias have occupied a federal building in Oregon and what this truly signifies, read on...
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/…/full-story-on-whats-…/

Grab a coffee, because this is soup-to-nuts. Many people will awaken today to the news of…
theconservativetreehouse.com

Last Saturday, armed men took over the offices of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, in Harney County, Oregon. Ammon Bundy, leader of this group, and his father, the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, style themselves as part of a Western movement to take land back for the people from the federal government. But that’s not what’s really going on. (After all, most of these lands once belonged to Native Americans.) The real fight is over how much the rest of us will continue to subsidize the Bundys and other privateers -- private logging contractors who are allowed to cut vast tracts of federal forest at subsidized rates, ranchers who pay grazing fees on some 300 acres of public lands at rates far below the market rate, private mining companies that now extract about a billion dollars a year of minerals from public lands without paying royalties, and farmers who benefit from the federal Bureau of Reclamation’s irrigation systems that make arid land capable of producing crops.
The Bundys and their allies oppose efforts to protect the environment because they want even more of these subsidized benefits. I’d rather protect what’s left of the environment.
What do you think?


Harry Reid has run 52 ranchers our of business so far, just like their recent efforts with Cliven Bundy, because of his ownership in Reid Bunkerville, LLC, which…
truthandaction.org


Alternative News and Views, Reported by Agents Around the World, 24 hours a day
www.rumormillnews.com

. Federalization of private properties is illegal. ranchers are arrested as TERRORIST...but FEDS are Terrorists. They are taking private lands for fake Conservation, but really for the mineral wealth
Western lawmakers have been pushing back against federal ownership of public lands in their states for decades.
washingtonpost.com|By Niraj Chokshi


The truth is revealed: research conducted by the University of Ottawa has shown that the killings of ‪#‎Maidan‬ protestors were organized by far right paramilitary groups and allied political parties, not the former government’s Berkut riot police. ‪#‎UkraineCrisis‬

For over a hundred years, conservation has been a value held in high regard by a majority of Americans. But if Republicans have their way, all the lands we have…
reverbpress.com|By Stephen D Foster Jr








"Never let anybody interfere with the things you want to do and say. That's the number one rule for everything."
http://contnt.ly/1YILp9y


As many of us have suspected, Israel is paying and training internet bloggers to delete, rewrite, and revise internet content (especially Wikipedia) to…
Global Research (Centre for Research on Globalization)
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BRAD HOFF: (...) historians of the 2011 NATO war in Libya will be sure to notice a few of the truly explosive confirmations contained in the new emails: admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, Al Qaeda embedded in the U.S. backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency.
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Two professors from Hebrew University accused Israel’s Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked, of facilitating arms sales and “genocide” in Africa, with one branding…
rt.com
A court of appeals in America has finally ruled that members of the Bush administration can be held accountable for war crimes committed in the name of the so called 'war on terror.'

A court of appeals in America has finally ruled that members of the Bush administration can be held accountable for war crimes committed in the name…
yournewswire.com|By Edmondo Burr


More reason than ever to get your meat from small local growers, even if it does mean eating less meat.

Scores of Americans are in an uproar since the U.S. Department of Agriculture
ecowatch.com

Smucker's is no food champion; while using GMO ingredients in its ‘family-friendly’ products, the company is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars against GMO labeling. Tell Smucker’s you don’t want GMOs here: https://www.facebook.com/smuckers